From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

Adding grids to the model - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Adding grids to the model

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- [Instructor] With a traditional structural plan, you're not going to get very far without a grid system. This video's objective is to use our architectural underlay to setup a grid system. We'll add grids to the core center line of the exterior architectural walls, then we'll add some grids to some of the major demising partitions within our model. In Revit, I'm going to go to open, I'm going to browse to chapter two this time, and I'll grab my Structural_04 model. Of course you can use any model that you want to put grids in. I'll click open. In the project browser, let's go to structural plan level one. In our properties of our view, let's scroll down till we find view template. Let's go floor plan coordination, we'll click on that. And I want to set my detail level, instead of coarse, we'll click the dropdown here and we'll set it to fine. Let's click apply, let's click okay. Let's add some grids. Zoom in on this corner of the building. Go to the structure tab, click the grid button right here. On the draw panel, click the pick lines button. If we hover over the exact center line of this wall, notice that we get a little blue temporary alignment line. Once you see that right in the core center, pick it. Similar to our levels, we have a little grip that we can pick and we can drag up. We'll drag our bubble up to about here. If we go down to the bottom of our building, we have another grip. We can grab it, we can drag it down. Now we can click on the little show bubble button, just like we did on our level. And there's grid one. Hit escape a couple times. Select grid line one, and we're going to click the copy button right here. Let's make sure we can strain it, which is kind of like turning the ortho on in AutoCAD, and we'll click multiple. I'm going to zoom in. I don't want to pick a point down in here, because we might get the wrong snap point. So I'll pick a point just above our building, right on our grid line right here. (imitates beep) Now if I scroll in a little bit, I can grab the center line of this wall, and notice that gives me column line two. Grab the center line of this wall, grab the center line of this wall, grab the center line of this wall, and zoom in and grab the center line of this wall. Hit escape a few times. Now, I want to select grid line six, right click, and create similar. Now scroll into here, and I want to select the end point of where our curved wall meets our straight wall, right here. This one's a little tricky. Pick that point there. Now, just like our levels, if we pull it up to here, it aligns with it. Pick that. We have a grip on the bottom, we can drag that down. We can turn on our bubble here. Hit escape a couple of times. Now let's put in our horizontal grids. Right click on column line one, and create similar. On the draw panel, click the pick lines button, and select the mid point of your horizontal wall here. Grab your grip, drag it out. We can turn on our bubble. I don't want that to be eight though, so select the blue eight, and type in a capital A, and click off of it. Hit escape a few times. Select column line A, click the copy button. Constrain and multiple should be on by default now. I'll click a base point here. Pick a spot along that wall, a spot along this wall, spot along this wall, this one, and then the center line of this wall here. Now we'll hit escape a couple times. On the opposite end, notice that we can select the grid bubble. Pick it, and let's drag them all out so they're out past the building a decent amount. Hit escape a couple of times. Now, I want to put a radial grid line here. Right click on grid B, create similar. On the draw panel, click the pick lines button. Now, I want to create another grid. It's going to be a radial grid that goes in here. If I select column line B, I'm going to right click and create similar. On my draw panel, I'll click my pick lines button, and for my offset, I'll type 152. Zoom into this wall, and I'm going to offset this down, like that. Notice that I have the grip the same as I had on the other ones, I can drag this in, and Revit's going to just position it kind of right there. I'll grab this one, I'll drag that in, and I'm going to turn on that grid. There we go. Let's add two more, hit escape a couple times. Right click on column line B or any column line will work. Now I'm going to go down to create similar. Now I want it to be at the very center line of this grid, but notice that Revit kind of jumps around and makes it hard to select. So if I type SC for snap center, and hover over grid line G, notice that I get a little center line snap. So once I see that, I'm going to select column line G, and I can track it up to 45 degrees. See how it kind of snaps in? So I have my column line H here, I'll pick this spot right here. Hit escape a couple of times. Now I'm going to change this, instead of H, I'm going to call this B, capital B point one. Click off of it. Hit escape a couple times. Now I'm going to select B.1, and I want to mirror it. So I will click on mirror draw axis, and I'll come down to either the center or the endpoint, whatever shows up first for you. Pick a base point, move your cursor out horizontally, and then pick this point. Hit escape a couple times. I just want to relabel this to D.9. You can just click off of it. Hit escape a couple times. Let's zoom out, there it is. Save your model, that's how you create a structural grid.

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